In another instance of ignoring those who just might know best, Arizona is among the 13 states considering legalizing guns on college campuses.

Mesa’s Sen. Karen Johnson has drawn up legislation that would allow students with concealed weapons permits to carry those weapons on campus. The Arizona Board of Regents reacted swiftfy by adopting a resolution making the university campuses gun-free.

Other bills winding their way through the state house include legalizing “defensive” displays of firearms, carrying firearms in restaurants that serve alcohol and keeping a loaded weapon anywhere in a vehicle.

Law enforcement professionals, including Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and many police organizations, oppose making it easier to carry firearms.

Triggered by the recent tragedies at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech, those who would loosen restrictions on guns say an armed society is a safe one.

Isolated examples, such as the Tucson homeowner who killed a home invader last week, are used to justify making it easier to pack a gun anywhere.

Those who fill those big shoes, walking the beats, see it otherwise. And in the past few days, they’ve seen too much.

Seven homicides and two additional shootings by police have claimed the lives of Tucsonans recently.

There seem to be enough bullets flying already. Will more guns on the street help or hurt? Some things are better left to the professionals. Taking advice from legislators on matters of life and death may not lead to the best policy.

This archive contains all the stories that appeared on the Tucson Citizen's website from mid-2006 to June 1, 2009.

In 2010, a power surge fried a server that contained all of videos linked to dozens of stories in this archive. Also, a server that contained all of the databases for dozens of stories was accidentally erased, so all of those links are broken as well. However, all of the text and photos that accompanied some stories have been preserved.

For all of the stories that were archived by the Tucson Citizen newspaper's library in a digital archive between 1993 and 2009, go to Morgue Part 2